Who is Bill Donohue?

In case anyone is wondering whether Bill Donohue — the guy who has called for John Edwards’ recently-hired bloggers to be fired because of their alleged anti-Catholic “bigotry” — is someone who anyone in their right mind should take seriously, these quotes ought to settle the matter (see the original post for links; I don’t have time to copy them all in).

  * “People don’t trust the Muslims when it comes to liberty.” [MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, 2/9/06]

  * “Name for me a book publishing company in this country, particularly in New York, which would allow you to publish a book which would tell the truth about the gay death style.” [MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, 2/27/04]

  * “The gay community has yet to apologize to straight people for all the damage that they have done.” [MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, 4/11/05]

  * Addressing former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) in a press release, Donohue said: “[W]hy didn’t you just smack the clergyman in the face? After all, most 15-year-old teenage boys wouldn’t allow themselves to be molested. So why did you?” [10/4/06]

  * “I’m saying if a Catholic votes for Kerry because they support him on abortion rights, that is to cooperate in evil.” [MSNBC’s Hardball, 10/21/04]

  * “We’ve already won. Who really cares what Hollywood thinks? All these hacks come out there. Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It’s not a secret, OK? And I’m not afraid to say it. … Hollywood likes anal sex. They like to see the public square without nativity scenes. I like families. I like children. They like abortions. I believe in traditional values and restraint. They believe in libertinism. We have nothing in common. But you know what? The culture war has been ongoing for a long time. Their side has lost.” [MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, 12/8/04]

  * “Well, look, there are people in Hollywood, not all of them, but there are some people who are nothing more than harlots. They will do anything for the buck. They wouldn’t care. If you asked them to sodomize their own mother in a movie, they would do so, and they would do it with a smile on their face.” [MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, 2/9/06]

Donohue has also refused to condemn the most outrageous actions and comments (including some that actually are anti-Catholic bigotry) of people he considers to be allies (again, see the original post for the links).

In 2004, Media Matters first detailed anti-Catholic comments made by Jerome Corsi, who, as co-author of Unfit for Command (Regnery, 2004), was one of the ringleaders of the smear campaign by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) — a Catholic presidential candidate. Among Corsi’s bigoted comments:

  * CORSI: “So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that’s probably about it.”

  * CORSI: “Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press.”

Corsi also called Islam “a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion,” and a “cancer that destroys the body it infects” and claimed of Muslims: “RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters — it all goes together.”

Despite the uproar surrounding Corsi’s comments, Donohue apparently remained silent at the time, and subsequently dismissed the comments as “quips.” A search of the Nexis database yields no examples of Donohue denouncing — or even commenting on — Corsi’s anti-Catholic remarks.

A search of the Catholic League’s website for “Corsi” yields only one result — a 2006 news release in which Donohue defended Corsi (who is referred to in the release as “Jerry Corsi”). The Catholic League release stated, “Corsi once made anti-Catholic jokes on the Internet, and later apologized for doing so,” and quoted Donohue describing Corsi as “someone who once made anti-Catholic quips for which he has long apologized.”

Neither the Times nor the AP reported Donohue’s selective history of criticizing political actors for anti-Catholic comments.

Nor did the Times or the AP report Donohue’s defense of actor Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic comments. Donohue said of Gibson, “There’s a lot of people who have made comments which are bigoted who are not necessarily bigots,” adding that he is “concerned now about piling on.” Of those who won’t forgive Gibson, Donohue said: “Who gives a damn about those people?” Donohue then asked, “What kind of blood do they want out of this man?

So heads up MSM and Edwards campaign: Bill Donohue is a loon.  If you want to cast your lot with him, be my guest, but don’t expect me to like it, or you, when you do.

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